Amanda Black

Amanda Black is a Northern Irish epidemiologist who is the associate director of biological resources in the National Cancer Institute's division of cancer epidemiology and genetics. Black has been awarded a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Bridge Award and a Distinguished Service Award.

Life Black received an undergraduate degree in biomedical science (2001), Master of Medical Laboratory Science (2002), and Ph.D. in epidemiology and public health (2005) from Queen's University Belfast's faculty of medicine and health sciences. Her dissertation was titled Secular trends in the physical health and psychological well-being of students attending Queen's University Belfast. In May 2020 she received a Distinguished Service Award, “for her organizational and scientific leadership in managing the DCEG biospecimen resources management tool—Biospecimen Inventory (BSI), which stores highly critical information on 12 million biospecimens”.